One Thing Quotes (page 44)

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• reality
• learning
• mind

Of all I saw and learned this past half year, one thing stands out. What goes on in the class is not what teachers think-- certainly not what I had always thought. For years now I have worked with a picture in mind of what my class was like. This reality, which I felt I knew, was partly physical, partly mental or spiritual. In other words, I thought I knew, in general, what the students were doing, and also what they were thinking and feeling. I see now that my picture of reality was almost... John Holt

• manly
• which
• hi

There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty. Jane Austen

• change
• god
• character

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God Elizabeth Gilbert

• evening
• complex system
• complexity

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. Adrienne Rich

• heart
• manly
• hearts

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another Homer

• true
• now
• true ones

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true. Ernest Hemingway

• work
• rain
• thing

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain. C. S. Lewis

• good
• good luck
• luck

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. Cormac McCarthy

• silence
• alone
• may

Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor of the cave would chafe us, the weather would irritate us and the very silence would cause us to fret Aiden Wilson Tozer

• grateful
• may
• blessed

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. George Herbert

• manly
• choose
• mans

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley Jane Austen

• prayer
• meditation
• saying

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! Karl Rahner

• things
• day
• days

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. John Steinbeck

• family
• dad
• bad

What is this, a summit meeting?" Alan demanded as he strode down the hall. "It's one thing to be the advance man," he continued as he cupped a hand around the back of his wife's neck, "and another to be the sacrificial lamb. Dad's doing a lot of moaning and groaning about this family scattering off in all directions."With Caine getting the worst of it," Serena put in."Yeah." Alan grinned once, appealingly. "Too bad he's late. Nora Roberts

• smile
• fighting
• opportunity

I gritted my teeth for a second, fighting a smile. If there was one thing he couldn't resist, it was an opportunity to give me something. Stephenie Meyer